Cirrhosis Support Group

Cirrhosis is a consequence of chronic liver disease, most commonly caused by alcoholism and hepatitis C. Ascites is the most common complication of cirrhosis and is associated with a poor quality of life, increased risk of infections, and a poor long term outcome. Liver damage from cirrhosis cannot be reversed, but treatment can stop or delay further progression and...

Books to read

I joined this group and sight as I was looking for friends who can understand what I'm feeling and to share my experience. I'm somewhat disapointed in that the group seems pretty stagnant with little discussion going on. In an attempt to change that I am going to do my best to add relevant topics. My first is this: I just read a book called "Strong in All the Broken Places" voices of illness, chorus of hope by Richard M. Cohen. I found it extremely insightful and saw myself in many places in the book. Mr Cohen has suffered through two boughts of colon cancer and has MS. He previously wrote a book about that called "Blindsided. Strong in all the Broken Places is about 5 people and thier families who suffer from 5 different life changing/threatning diseases. He spent time with them over the course of a couple of years. I recommend this book to anyone on this sight and thier families and friends. Do you have any books that you have read that may be of help to others.

I was just comming on to post a News Letter I found on cirrhosis which also belongs on this comunity. So I will post that here. I couldn't find how to high light it so you'll have to copy and paste it into your search.

Thanks for mentioning the book I would like to look into it. Sounds interesting and helpful. You menton 5 different diseases so I am also going to post a book here as many with hep c cross over to this community and it does deal with liver desease which obviously is the heading of the community. So maybe someone will find it helpful.
Dr. Melissa Palmer's Guide to Hepatitis Liver Desease
Melissa Palmer, M.D.
a practical guide to understanding treating and living with hepatitis and liver disease

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